Recruitment Team Lead
The closing date is 14 May 2026
Are you the person colleagues naturally turn to for recruitment advice, support and expertise?
We're creating a new Recruitment Team Lead role as part of a wider redesign of our Recruitment Service. This is a hands-on leadership role with real accountability for day-to-day delivery.
You’ll lead a small team of Recruitment Advisors, providing line management, setting clear expectations and managing workload. You’ll act as the first point of escalation for hiring managers and step in to resolve issues where needed.
This is a delivery-focused role. You’ll manage the recruitment pipeline, identify risks early, remove blockers and ensure activity moves at pace‑without compromising on quality, compliance, candidate experience or inclusive practice.
We are strengthening the advisory role of the service. You’ll support Advisors to guide managers, promote fair and inclusive decisions, and improve recruitment practice. You’ll also help build capability, improve use of systems and data, and support a more proactive, consultancy‑based approach.
You’ll need to be confident supervising staff or coordinating work, managing competing priorities and keeping things on track in a busy environment. Strong judgement, communication and a focus on outcomes are essential.
If you’re ready to take ownership and shape how recruitment operates, we’d like to hear from you.
Advert may close early due to high applications.
Main duties of the job
- Provide first line management and day to day supervision to Recruitment Advisors, including workload allocation, performance oversight and development.
- Coordinate and prioritise recruitment activity across the team to ensure timely delivery against agreed service standards.
- Act as the first point of escalation for operational and complex recruitment issues, resolving within remit and escalating where required.
- Oversee recruitment activity to ensure consistency, compliance with NHS Employment Check Standards and adherence to Trust policy.
- Support recruitment campaigns, assessment centres and high volume recruitment activity.
- Contribute to service improvement by identifying inefficiencies and supporting implementation of changes to processes and systems.
- Provide advice and guidance to managers on recruitment processes, selection practice and inclusive recruitment.
About us
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.
We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.
Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.
We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.
Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well‑regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.
Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description for full details of the role and responsibilities.
In summary, the postholder will provide team leadership, coordinate recruitment activity, oversee quality assurance and compliance, support service improvement, and contribute to delivery of an efficient, inclusive and high quality recruitment service.
Education / Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- GCSE English and Maths or equivalenT
- Evidence of relevant recruitment or HR training, or equivalent practical experience
- CIPD qualification or working towards
Skills / Abilities
- Ability to provide clear, accurate, and timely advice and guidance to managers on recruitment processes, selection practice, and policy requirements
- Ability to provide first line supervision, including one to ones, appraisal support, objective setting, and day to day performance feedback.
- Ability to allocate, prioritise, and track workloads across a team, ensuring deadlines and service standards are met.
- Ability to quality assure recruitment activity, identifying errors, risks, or non compliance and ensuring corrective action is taken.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly with managers, candidates, and colleagues, including handling sensitive issues appropriately.
- Ability to use judgement and problem solve within agreed frameworks, recognising when to elevate.
- Ability to interpret and apply policy, process controls, and employment checking requirements consistently
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective working relationships and influence day to day behaviours and compliance.
- Microsoft Excel skills, including the ability to produce reports and analyse recruitment and workforce data using formulas, pivot tables, and data validation tools
Experience
- Significant experience in a recruitment or HR environment, with responsibility for managing end to end recruitment activity.
- Experience of supervising staff or coordinating the work of others on a day to day basis, including workload allocation and supporting performance and development
- Experience advising managers or stakeholders on recruitment processes, recruitment options, and selection practice
- Experience of quality assuring work outputs or processes, identifying issues and ensuring they are corrected
- Experience of working to service standards, timescales, and competing priorities in a high volume environment.
- Experience working in NHS recruitment or a similar large, complex organisation
- Experience supporting recruitment campaigns, assessment centres, or high volume recruitment exercises
- Experience supporting service improvement activity, including embedding new processes, templates, or ways of working.
Knowledge
- Knowledge of end to end recruitment and selection processes, including shortlisting, interviewing, offers, and pre employment checks
- Knowledge of NHS Employment Check Standards and safer recruitment principles.
- Knowledge of Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Knowledge of Trac and ESR systems, or similar recruitment and HR systems.
- Knowledge of recruitment governance and audit requirements, including basic data quality principles
- Knowledge of confidentiality, data protection, and information governance requirements in relation to recruitment and employment records
- Knowledge of equality, diversity, and inclusive recruitment practice, including how to reduce bias in selection and support fair decision making.
- Working knowledge of relevant employment legislation as it applies to recruitment activity, including right to work and fair recruitment practice.
Trust Values, Equal Opportunities & Other Requirements
- Demonstrates behaviours aligned to the Trust's values in day to day leadership, communication, and decision making.
- Demonstrates a clear commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion, including promoting fair and inclusive recruitment practice.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams and services to support coordinated delivery and a positive candidate and manager experience.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
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